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Seven Chances (1925)
Director: Buster Keaton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Less ambitious and less concerned with plastic values than the best of Keaton, this is nevertheless a dazzlingly balletic comedy in which Buster has a matter of hours to acquire the wife on which a seven million dollar inheritance depends. Having insulted his sweetheart by explaining the necessity of marriage, been turned down by seven possible candidates at the country club, and (in a series of innocently inept gags) found his path beset by uglies, blacks or female impersonators, he advertises - only to find a horde of applicants besieging the church. From this leisurely start, the film takes off into a fantastically elaborate, gloriously inventive chase sequence, in which Buster escapes the mob of pursuing harridans only to find an escalating avalanche of rocks taking over at his heels as he hurtles downhill. Added only after an initial preview, the rocks make for one of the great Keaton action gags.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Buster Keaton
Producer: Joseph M Schenck
Cast: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, Ray Barnes, Snitz Edwards full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 6 mins
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